by KarenD | Feb 11, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes Originally posted in 2017 I once took a year’s leave from academia to serve as a match coordinator in a Boston-based mentoring program. One evening I found myself sitting on the edge of a couch in a subsidized apartment conducting an intake with...
by KarenD | Feb 5, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
This isn’t how you pictured your relationship with your mentee turning out. She was supposed to burst out the door of her home with excitement every time you picked her up, hang on your every word, and spend at least half of her time with you laughing and smiling....
by KarenD | Jan 29, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes Care for some direct, research-based ideas for connecting with others? I’d recommend a book that distills the essential findings of many studies. Friend and Foe, by Business Professors Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer or Columbia and the...
by KarenD | Jan 22, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
Some days it just seems impossible to wedge one more activity into your schedule. But being a mentor doesn’t necessarily need to become a burden in your life. Being a mentor is about more than going on special outings to movies and amusement parks. It’s about spending...
by KarenD | Jan 6, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
by Niobe Way, Ed.D., Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology at NYU and Author of Deep Secrets Matching boys with caring mentors should be the goal of any mentoring program regardless of the sex of the mentor. My research with Black, Latino, White, and Asian...
by KarenD | Dec 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Do you love the holidays, but struggle with keeping on track with your physical activity? Or maybe you just want to start your New Year resolutions early by being more active? Commit to run, walk, or move a mile every day, get active and enjoy a personal reward. The...
by KarenD | Nov 18, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
BY MADELINE OSTRANDER For a growing child, deprivation and stress can become a kind of neurotoxin. The brain’s foundation, frame, and walls are built in the womb. As an embryo grows into a fetus, some of its dividing cells turn into neurons, arranging...
by KarenD | Oct 31, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
By Kelli Richards CEO, The All Access Group @kellirichards When you decide to mentor someone, you really have no way of knowing how far she’ll go. Whether you shape the next great entrepreneur of our time or help someone achieve her dreams, you’ll make a...
